Welcome to Visit Gilroyd Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Gilroyd
Visit Gilroyd places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Gilroyd places to visit. A unique way to experience Gilroyd’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Gilroyd as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Gilroyd Walkfo Preview Gilroyd is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire. The village falls within the Dodworth ward of the MBC. When you visit Gilroyd, Walkfo brings Gilroyd places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Gilroyd Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Gilroyd
Visit Gilroyd – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 51 audio plaques & Gilroyd places for you to explore in the Gilroyd area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Gilroyd places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Gilroyd with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Gilroyd places with Walkfo Gilroyd to hear history at Gilroyd’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Gilroyd has 51 places to visit in our interactive Gilroyd map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Gilroyd, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Gilroyd places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Gilroyd & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Gilroyd tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Gilroyd
Best Gilroyd places to visit
Gilroyd has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Gilroyd’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Gilroyd’s information audio spots:
Dillington Park Stadium Dillington Park Stadium was a greyhound racing stadium on Highstone Road in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. It was built in 1950s and 1960s.
Kendray Kendray is an area in the S70 postal district of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The area takes its name from Kendray Hospital which was named after the linen manufacturer, Francis Kendray. Recent regeneration has seen new housing replacing old and unusable housing.
Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley The Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley is a metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire. The borough was formed under the Local Government Act 1972. It was formed from a merger of Cudworth, Darfield, Darton, Dearne, Dodworth, Hoyland Nether, Penistone, Royston, Wombwell and Worsborough urban districts. In 2007 it was estimated that Barnsley had 224,600 residents, measured at the 2011 census as 231,221.
Oakwell Oakwell is a multi-purpose sports development in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The main stadium is used primarily by Barnsley Football Club for playing their home fixtures, and those of their reserves. It also includes an indoor training pitch, a smaller stadium with seating on the south and west sides for around 2,200 spectators. It was the first stadium in English football to have a designated stand for disabled supporters.
Holy Rood Church, Barnsley Holy Rood Church is a Roman Catholic Parish Church in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. It was designed by Edward Simpson and is a Grade II listed building. It is situated on the corner of Castlereagh Street and George Street.
Central Offices, Barnsley Central Offices was a municipal facility at Kendray Street in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It was the headquarters of South Yorkshire County Council.
Higham, South Yorkshire Higham is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire. The village falls within the Dodworth ward of the Barn’sley MBC.
Barnsley F.C. Barnsley Football Club was founded in 1887 by Reverend Tiverton Preedy. The club’s colours were originally blue, but were changed to red and white in 1904. They have spent more seasons in the second tier of English football than any other club in history. Their home ground since 1888 has been Oakwell.
Visit Gilroyd plaques
5 plaques hereGilroyd has 5 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Gilroyd plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Gilroyd using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Gilroyd plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Gilroyd audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Gilroyd allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Gilroyd’s 51 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Gilroyd freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Gilroyd Map App
Our visit Gilroyd map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Gilroyd & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Gilroyd tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Gilroyd centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Gilroyd area at LONG:-1.5111, LAT:53.53705.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Gilroyd, go to your App Store to search for “Walkfo” or follow a links below and install on your mobile phone. Walkfo is designed for use with headphones or AirPods, so you can walk & explore whilst learning about the things around you without digital distraction.
Things to do & visit in Gilroyd / surrounding areas
● Worsbrough Bridge Athletic F.C. ● Mount Vernon Hospital, Barnsley ● Worsbrough Mill ● Ward Green ● Barrow Colliery ● Dillington Park Stadium ● Worsbrough ● Church of St Mary, Worsborough ● Houndhill ● Kendray ● Locke Park ● Kendray Hospital ● Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley ● Kingstone, South Yorkshire ● Alhambra Shopping Centre ● Oakwell ● Holy Rood Church, Barnsley ● Central Offices, Barnsley ● Barnsley and District Tramway ● Barnsley Rural District ● Barnsley Metrodome ● Shaw Lane (cricket ground) ● Barnsley Interchange ● Barnsley Public Hall disaster ● Barnsley ● Barnsley Town Hall ● Stainborough ● St Mary’s Church, Barnsley ● Gilroyd ● Noblethorpe
● Church of All Saints, Silkstone ● Silkstone ● Silkstone glassworks ● Silkstone Common ● Huskar Pit ● Higham, South Yorkshire ● Dodworth ● Old Town, Barnsley ● Barnsley Hospital ● Wilthorpe ● Barugh, South Yorkshire ● Barugh Green ● Gawber ● Bagger Wood ● Hood Green ● Penny Pie Park ● Pogmoor ● Barnsley F.C. ● Wentworth Castle
Getting to / around Gilroyd – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Gilroyd using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Gilroyd places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Gilroyd Public Transport Stations
Gilroyd Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Barnsley Court House railway station
Summer Lane railway station
Silkstone Common railway station
Moor End goods station
Dodworth railway station
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Local Gilroyd historians & Gilroyd tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Gilroyd? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Gilroyd’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Gilroyd place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Gilroyd Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Gilroyd destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Gilroyd’ web pages (for example: www.visitGilroyd.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.1336